The desire to disappear is a desire to be free, to escape the burdens and expectations of society, and to find solace in anonymity. It is a paradoxical longing for liberation through absence, where the self is both lost and found in the shadows.
This video is a great representation of this feeling! I want to encourage people here that there is a healthy way to deal with this, and it is known as escapism. I’m in no way a psychological expert, and I don’t have any serious research, but in my own experience using escapism is a great way to get rid of the feeling. Escapism is essentially doing something you love until it becomes second-nature, and then using it as a sort of escape from reality, being in the zone with complete focus. If performed well, it can literally make you feel like you’re transcending and shifting worlds. However, if you do this too much, you may gain a dependency for it as if it is a psychedelic drug. At that point, you will crave it even at times when you should be focusing on other things, and it can become unhealthy quickly. But using it as a tool is great if you can balance it. Escapism comes in many forms. Virtual reality is hands down the best at doing the job, but terrible at not becoming a dependency. I would be extra careful in virtual reality, not just for this, but also other reasons that would more than triple the length of this already absurdly long comment. Roleplay is definitely a close second, as you may start to feel like the personality you’re roleplaying as. A potential drawback is that you may start to feel a need to become that character or personality in your day-to-day life, which is unhealthy regardless of the personality. However, the more negative the personality, the worse of a personality you have the chance to develop. Video games are not as good at doing the job, but they are very interactive, which can be translated into immersion for some individuals. Video game dependency is also much rarer than people tend to say. Video games are my personal form of escapism, allowing me to distance myself from this cruel world, and just take some time to have fun. That’s really all escapism is, as long as it doesn’t get out of hand. Books work quite well and have almost never caused health issues! When reading fiction, you start to imagine yourself as the character you are reading from the perspective of, thus making it immersive. The only real issue is that you can’t read in the dark, which is why lights exist. 😅 Shows and movies aren’t great at escapism because they lack the interaction of virtual reality and video games, as well as the separation from self that books and roleplay offer. One final note, a great alternative to escapism is meditation. I’m not saying you have to sit on the floor with your legs crossed and hold the sign language “f” in both of your hands. Just take a minute or two out of your day to sit, relax, breathe, and attempt to empty your mind. This works very well alongside escapism if you so choose to use both of them. They are exact opposites, but both are incredible powerful tools to combat not just existential dread, but anxiety, stress, and can even calm some people with mental disorders. And thing is, both of them are so easy. Escapism simply requires you to have a hobby you enjoy, and meditation requires nothing except an open mind and a few minutes of your day. Wow, this was a long comment. If you read all the way through it, I hope I left you with something you can apply to your own life. Best wishes ❤
Anyone else want to just...watch? To just be a spectator and see history unfold, to see the era of humans pass by and see what else the universe has in store. To not alter or be altered. To observe.
The desire to disappear can show itself as a strange appeal of both the anonymity of a metropolis and the loneliness of the countryside. I've always felt it the strongest in places like Hongkong or when stargazing in the Himalayas.
Thank you so much for this video it really gave me hope that i should just go through this moment and understand myself and not lose hope becuase of this moment and become stronger , thank you very much.
comment for the algo: I think you should keep incorporating different drawings of your character a lot in your videos, it makes it fun to watch and it makes it easier to internalize the ideas
The First Seconds sound like Death but rather are the time before our Existnce meaning that if you think about the Past before you Creation this it what it feels like to not Exist.
Exactly, that's the interesting thing about the phenomenon. No matter what happens we will never truly experience not existing, even though we didn't exist before and nor will we exist after our death, presumably.
Not being born at all would be the best because it means you don't experience any suffering and even trying to end things causes more suffering itself, as can waiting out the clock because then you can get slapped with more tragedies, like loved ones dying, or other forms of pain, emotional and/or physical, disability, and even waiting can run the risk of unpleasant consequences, even in death it can be a bad one even if you get a natural one, even if it occurs at old age well into your 80'a, you get to that point and you expect to die in your sleep one day, but you might still not be rewarded for making it that far and being patient and you might still get terminal cancer and suffer for 2 years and then die, or you might get Alzheimer's disease, lose your mind, suffer, and then die. Even the act of not taking one's own destiny into their own hands and bringing about the end permaturely runs the risk of suffering as much as a potentially botched attempt might, there's really no path through life with the certainty of zero suffering whether trying to end it or waiting it out, so not being born in the first place at all truly is the best possible outcome by far. Even just the worry and the fear that, in the absence of certainty of zero suffering throughout all of life, there is always and forever a constant risk of something bad happening sooner or later and that the risk only keeps rising and that, statistically speaking, it's unlikely you're going to make it to die in your sleep in your 80's, even that worry and that fear are really, really bad and ever omnipresent. If you get hit by a speeding bus in your 30's and die instantly and painlessly, is that really worse for you than dying of Alzheimer's in your 80's? Not really, it's better, actually, not for the people that care about you because they carried the expectation they would get to enjoy your company until you reached at least 80, or at the very least 75, and are thoroughly devastated to lose you so soon, but you won't experience their grief because you don't exist anymore, your body does, whatever's left of your horrifically disturbingly mangled corpse, but you yourself are not, you don't care because you can't because you don't exist. You don't want to attempt to induce it by running out in front of one deliberately because you might end up in a wheelchair and your life will be even worse in that case, but if it happened out of luck by sheer accident and you happened to die instantly, that's equally as much best case scenario for you yourself as if you died in your sleep in your 80's, or really at any point in your life. As long as you haven't got any non-adult kids, dying instantly and painlessly so you haven't got the potential to suffer in the present or at some point in the future anymore, when you were going to die one day anyway in maybe a worse way and living forever would be substantially worse still anyway, then that's the best case scenario for anybody from my perspective, even if maybe not necessarily from everybody else's. Not being born is even better because you didn't suffer even once in that case, it is the unbeatable best case scenario, ultimate victory. As in, not just ceasing to exist suddenly, but to have never existed in the first place. To erase your existence not just from the present onwards, but from the past, too. If existence never existed in the first place, that would mean never any suffering whatsoever, and that would be best.
The desire to disappear is a desire to be free, to escape the burdens and expectations of society, and to find solace in anonymity. It is a paradoxical longing for liberation through absence, where the self is both lost and found in the shadows.
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Unfortunately most people don’t get this
Back in my school days, i wanted to exist, but not exist at the same time. Like a ghost, who observes the world, free of any bounds
This video is a great representation of this feeling! I want to encourage people here that there is a healthy way to deal with this, and it is known as escapism. I’m in no way a psychological expert, and I don’t have any serious research, but in my own experience using escapism is a great way to get rid of the feeling.
Escapism is essentially doing something you love until it becomes second-nature, and then using it as a sort of escape from reality, being in the zone with complete focus. If performed well, it can literally make you feel like you’re transcending and shifting worlds. However, if you do this too much, you may gain a dependency for it as if it is a psychedelic drug. At that point, you will crave it even at times when you should be focusing on other things, and it can become unhealthy quickly. But using it as a tool is great if you can balance it. Escapism comes in many forms.
Virtual reality is hands down the best at doing the job, but terrible at not becoming a dependency. I would be extra careful in virtual reality, not just for this, but also other reasons that would more than triple the length of this already absurdly long comment.
Roleplay is definitely a close second, as you may start to feel like the personality you’re roleplaying as. A potential drawback is that you may start to feel a need to become that character or personality in your day-to-day life, which is unhealthy regardless of the personality. However, the more negative the personality, the worse of a personality you have the chance to develop.
Video games are not as good at doing the job, but they are very interactive, which can be translated into immersion for some individuals. Video game dependency is also much rarer than people tend to say. Video games are my personal form of escapism, allowing me to distance myself from this cruel world, and just take some time to have fun. That’s really all escapism is, as long as it doesn’t get out of hand.
Books work quite well and have almost never caused health issues! When reading fiction, you start to imagine yourself as the character you are reading from the perspective of, thus making it immersive. The only real issue is that you can’t read in the dark, which is why lights exist. 😅
Shows and movies aren’t great at escapism because they lack the interaction of virtual reality and video games, as well as the separation from self that books and roleplay offer.
One final note, a great alternative to escapism is meditation. I’m not saying you have to sit on the floor with your legs crossed and hold the sign language “f” in both of your hands. Just take a minute or two out of your day to sit, relax, breathe, and attempt to empty your mind.
This works very well alongside escapism if you so choose to use both of them. They are exact opposites, but both are incredible powerful tools to combat not just existential dread, but anxiety, stress, and can even calm some people with mental disorders. And thing is, both of them are so easy. Escapism simply requires you to have a hobby you enjoy, and meditation requires nothing except an open mind and a few minutes of your day.
Wow, this was a long comment. If you read all the way through it, I hope I left you with something you can apply to your own life. Best wishes ❤
You explained well without using heavy words. As someone whose first language isn't english, this was easy to understand. Keep going 🙌🏻
I appreciate you
Anyone else want to just...watch?
To just be a spectator and see history unfold, to see the era of humans pass by and see what else the universe has in store.
To not alter or be altered.
To observe.
I do
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
Jean-Paul Sartre
The desire to disappear can show itself as a strange appeal of both the anonymity of a metropolis and the loneliness of the countryside. I've always felt it the strongest in places like Hongkong or when stargazing in the Himalayas.
Thanks ❤
I am stoned the fuck out and this channel is exactly what i needed. You kind sir have +1 sub
This is a fantastic video, makes me long to study philosophy like you have. You are beautifully researched.
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Thank you so much for this video it really gave me hope that i should just go through this moment and understand myself and not lose hope becuase of this moment and become stronger , thank you very much.
Especially every monday morning bfr going to ofc, if i cd switch it off!!!!
Then i can switch it on on friday evening.. No dilemma..🎉🎉
comment for the algo: I think you should keep incorporating different drawings of your character a lot in your videos, it makes it fun to watch and it makes it easier to internalize the ideas
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The First Seconds sound like Death but rather are the time before our Existnce meaning that if you think about the Past before you Creation this it what it feels like to not Exist.
Exactly, that's the interesting thing about the phenomenon. No matter what happens we will never truly experience not existing, even though we didn't exist before and nor will we exist after our death, presumably.
I try to make everything disappear every time I use junk
Thumbnail looks kinda familiar 😆
Yeah, you've probably seen this thumbnail on 'The Desire to Not Exist.'
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I wish I could.
The great movie in night
Not being born at all would be the best because it means you don't experience any suffering and even trying to end things causes more suffering itself, as can waiting out the clock because then you can get slapped with more tragedies, like loved ones dying, or other forms of pain, emotional and/or physical, disability, and even waiting can run the risk of unpleasant consequences, even in death it can be a bad one even if you get a natural one, even if it occurs at old age well into your 80'a, you get to that point and you expect to die in your sleep one day, but you might still not be rewarded for making it that far and being patient and you might still get terminal cancer and suffer for 2 years and then die, or you might get Alzheimer's disease, lose your mind, suffer, and then die. Even the act of not taking one's own destiny into their own hands and bringing about the end permaturely runs the risk of suffering as much as a potentially botched attempt might, there's really no path through life with the certainty of zero suffering whether trying to end it or waiting it out, so not being born in the first place at all truly is the best possible outcome by far. Even just the worry and the fear that, in the absence of certainty of zero suffering throughout all of life, there is always and forever a constant risk of something bad happening sooner or later and that the risk only keeps rising and that, statistically speaking, it's unlikely you're going to make it to die in your sleep in your 80's, even that worry and that fear are really, really bad and ever omnipresent. If you get hit by a speeding bus in your 30's and die instantly and painlessly, is that really worse for you than dying of Alzheimer's in your 80's? Not really, it's better, actually, not for the people that care about you because they carried the expectation they would get to enjoy your company until you reached at least 80, or at the very least 75, and are thoroughly devastated to lose you so soon, but you won't experience their grief because you don't exist anymore, your body does, whatever's left of your horrifically disturbingly mangled corpse, but you yourself are not, you don't care because you can't because you don't exist. You don't want to attempt to induce it by running out in front of one deliberately because you might end up in a wheelchair and your life will be even worse in that case, but if it happened out of luck by sheer accident and you happened to die instantly, that's equally as much best case scenario for you yourself as if you died in your sleep in your 80's, or really at any point in your life. As long as you haven't got any non-adult kids, dying instantly and painlessly so you haven't got the potential to suffer in the present or at some point in the future anymore, when you were going to die one day anyway in maybe a worse way and living forever would be substantially worse still anyway, then that's the best case scenario for anybody from my perspective, even if maybe not necessarily from everybody else's. Not being born is even better because you didn't suffer even once in that case, it is the unbeatable best case scenario, ultimate victory. As in, not just ceasing to exist suddenly, but to have never existed in the first place. To erase your existence not just from the present onwards, but from the past, too. If existence never existed in the first place, that would mean never any suffering whatsoever, and that would be best.
unreason exist with sentience is imprison, seek the freedom to be nothingness
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Are you okay?? these videos are very depressing :(
I am :) I simply love philosophy, thanks for asking